Boston’s Women’s Groups Have Questions For The Next Mayor

The candidates won't get away with talking about how great their wives, mothers, and daughters are.

A coalition of organizations want to make certain that women’s issuesâ€”serious, sometimes uncomfortable issuesâ€”get some attention during this year’s mayoral campaign.

They’d also like to get the next mayor, whoever that may be, on record in support of concrete action on those issuesâ€”and not let the candidates get away with just talking about how great their mothers, wives, and daughters are.

Their effort, called ELEVATE, will be unveiled later today, I am told.

It will include a three-part mission statement, a questionnaire for all the mayoral candidates, and plans for an October 16 forum between the two final contendersâ€”where, a coalition participant tells me, “icky things” will be discussed.